Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist

Netflix

Netflix is always on the lookout for the next Making a Murderer, and this absorbing four-part crime documentary might itself have had the potential to make killers of a very different kind – the documentarians themselves. Perhaps the most startling thing about the whole enthralling enterprise is the way that the work of filmmakers Barbara Schroeder (Talhotblond) and Trey Borzillieri might have lined up their incarcerated subjects for a potential new death-penalty case.

The series, which has been more than a decade in the making, tries to get to the truth about one of the most bizarre crimes in recent American history, the so-called Pizza Bomber Case.

In August 2003, a 46-year-old pizza delivery man named Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb attached to a metal collar locked around his neck. After leaving the bank he was surrounded by police and died when the bomb suddenly exploded (an event replayed here in shocking, barely edited video footage). Police, FBI agents and Borzillieri soon found themselves investigating a strange, mean clique of middle-aged hoarders, manipulators and lowlives who had hatched the elaborate plan and who also appeared connected to the murder of another man whose body was found in a freezer.